need to lose 20 lbs in 5 months

dandayatra
dandayatra Posts: 53
edited November 13 in Health and Weight Loss
can you share your tips

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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    Don't drink banana peanut butter smoothies too often
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Eat in a caloric deficit and add a little exercise.
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    Merkavar wrote: »
    Don't drink banana peanut butter smoothies too often

    omg...once in a week too that also in calorie deficit
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Eat in a caloric deficit and add a little exercise.

    thx..
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
    Eat fewer calories & move around more. 20lbs in 5 months is fairly reasonable, you can do it :)
  • TriShamelessly
    TriShamelessly Posts: 905 Member
    So basically you need to create a 500 calorie per day deficit to achieve 1 pound per week weight loss. Simple math. Simple solution - eat better (that can mean what you want) and move more. As a younger guy, it should be fairly easy for you to do this. 30-60 minutes of intense exercise a day (most days) plus a small restriction in your daily calorie intake would easily get you there. Good luck!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,338 Member
    I'm always concerned when people say they "need" to lose X amount in X amount of time. What happens if you don't? But the above is good advice. 4lbs a month is not a particularly aggressive amount to lose, so eat at a reasonable deficit and move about some.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    I lost 24lbs in 4 months doing alternate day fasting. It's not for everyone though.
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    CherokeeBabe wrote: »
    Eat fewer calories & move around more. 20lbs in 5 months is fairly reasonable, you can do it :)
    thank you

  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    TriShamelessly wrote: »
    So basically you need to create a 500 calorie per day deficit to achieve 1 pound per week weight loss. Simple math. Simple solution - eat better (that can mean what you want) and move more. As a younger guy, it should be fairly easy for you to do this. 30-60 minutes of intense exercise a day (most days) plus a small restriction in your daily calorie intake would easily get you there. Good luck!

    intense exercise means cardio/strength training??
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    I'm always concerned when people say they "need" to lose X amount in X amount of time. What happens if you don't? But the above is good advice. 4lbs a month is not a particularly aggressive amount to lose, so eat at a reasonable deficit and move about some.

    nothing happens just to have some goal is better than nothing right

    thx for the suggestion
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    christinev297 wrote: »
    I lost 24lbs in 4 months doing alternate day fasting. It's not for everyone though.

    no fasting
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    Read the sticky threads here. And welcome.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    dandayatra wrote: »
    christinev297 wrote: »
    I lost 24lbs in 4 months doing alternate day fasting. It's not for everyone though.

    no fasting

    It's your tdee on one day, and 500 calories the next

  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
    It's a pound a week. Do-able by anyone.

    You know what to do.

    Get busy.
  • paulr91
    paulr91 Posts: 2
    Depends on what your diet consists of now. If you are eating alot of processed foods and a high carb diet, you could lose 20 lbs in 6 weeks or less by cleaning up your diet, eating real food. Add some cardio and strength training in 3-5 times a week as well.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Weigh all food
    Log carefully and accurately
    Stick to your defecit over the week
    Don't categorise food as good or bad...it's just food and it all has calories
    Move more
    Lift heavy things and put them down again
  • sncoombs
    sncoombs Posts: 31
    Move more, Sweat more, Eat a little bit less!
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    paulr91 wrote: »
    Depends on what your diet consists of now. If you are eating alot of processed foods and a high carb diet, you could lose 20 lbs in 6 weeks or less by cleaning up your diet, eating real food. Add some cardio and strength training in 3-5 times a week as well.

    Cleaning up you diet? Really? There is nothing wrong with processed foods or carbs. In fact, unless you grow your own food, all of your food is ""processed" in some way.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    Yeah but you can drop a lot of water weight in a hurry by changing from a diet of mostly fast food to a diet of mostly home-cooked food. Just cutting the sodium down significantly will probably make a difference in the short term.

    In the long term, yeah, it doesn't really matter what you eat for weight loss as long as you're eating at a deficit. For health is another story.
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    SergeantSausage wrote: »
    It's a pound a week. Do-able by anyone.

    You know what to do.

    Get busy.

    yup trying...
    paulr91 wrote: »
    Depends on what your diet consists of now. If you are eating alot of processed foods and a high carb diet, you could lose 20 lbs in 6 weeks or less by cleaning up your diet, eating real food. Add some cardio and strength training in 3-5 times a week as well.
    thx..
  • dandayatra
    dandayatra Posts: 53
    segacs wrote: »
    Yeah but you can drop a lot of water weight in a hurry by changing from a diet of mostly fast food to a diet of mostly home-cooked food. Just cutting the sodium down significantly will probably make a difference in the short term.

    In the long term, yeah, it doesn't really matter what you eat for weight loss as long as you're eating at a deficit. For health is another story.
    need to check on sodium i am eating way lot than recommended
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